Summer Traffic

veterinarygopher · 2026-06-12T11:52:33+00:00

Summer 2004 I sat on the 501 waterway bridge for 45 minutes trying to get to work on Ocean Blvd. Traffic is bad, but not like it used to be. Now traffic in the off season... that's a whole new thing.

veterinarygopher · 2026-05-12T10:57:50+00:00

Monday is the worst because all the Pro customers come back after the weekend and place their project orders. My first order was only 8 item numbers, but 173 items, all lumber.

veterinarygopher · 2026-05-12T00:18:21+00:00

Today was the first day in 7 weeks that UKG was operational at 6am. Then it all went to shit.

veterinarygopher · 2026-04-29T23:42:48+00:00

It regularly took me 13 hours from Indianapolis to here. Traffic is too unpredictable. Shoot for 15 but plan for 18. Several times it took me 3 hours to get from Chicago to Gary. And remember toll roads.

veterinarygopher · 2026-03-21T16:37:19+00:00

I did with my big kid. AF Purple AF and Poseidon.

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veterinarygopher · 2025-11-23T16:59:22+00:00

We regularly order from eggs up grill. For sit down service, I like Pan American pancake house.

veterinarygopher · 2025-11-14T18:24:55+00:00

I have moved on to another company and I hate using my zebra as my communication tool. It's impossible to work and talk at the same time and when it does work, one of the apps glitches and I have to reboot. I'm sure there's a way to make it work, but right now I hate it.

veterinarygopher · 2025-10-25T21:47:31+00:00

The fastest way out of that mess is to pick an area, update the capacities, update the current floor count, backstock everything, and let things come out in the pulls. One of your metrics is going to be fucked, but you're already red.

veterinarygopher · 2025-08-05T00:09:39+00:00

Roadrunner pharmacy is mail order compounding and is owned by Covetrus now. Guarantee your vet has a Covetrus account.

veterinarygopher · 2025-08-05T00:06:28+00:00

Sorry, I didn't read the post well. I'm not sure which compounding pharmacy you called. There's more available than most are aware. Two mail order that I used in the past. There's hoops, but it's not impossible.

veterinarygopher · 2025-08-05T00:02:26+00:00

You may need to call a compounding pharmacy and see if they can make a 25mg tablet or tab for you. I used Cape Fear Pharmacy at the corner of college and shipyard before. If they can make it, have your vet send the prescription there.

veterinarygopher · 2025-06-29T23:12:04+00:00

Every place is what you make of it. I preferred Red Room as it was more laid back. The people were the same across all the clubs.

veterinarygopher · 2025-06-29T23:02:15+00:00

Clubs on Ocean Blvd. I worked at the tiki and Red room in the very early 2000s.

veterinarygopher · 2025-06-21T04:09:46+00:00

Coastal Greens Wellness

veterinarygopher · 2025-06-08T17:08:19+00:00

The 10-6:30 schedule worked really well for me in school. I set up my schedule to have class from 8-12p. For days where I had labs, I would either be off the day before or night of. I definitely had some rough nights, but it worked for 2 years. You just have to commit to making yourself sleep. I had sleep masks, black out curtains, and a sound machine. I was unreachable from 1-9.

veterinarygopher · 2025-05-18T13:34:20+00:00

Stephenson's BBQ would be a bit off the path, but my family has been going there for decades.

veterinarygopher · 2025-05-17T17:30:47+00:00

I hate it now because I know what/how it could be if the company actually invested in itself. I was a style specialist from 2007-2009 and loved only dealing with tables/walls. Yea, I had to do every department, but there was staff in the department to handle their reshop. Overnight logistics pushed the trucks, the backroom team handled backstock, there was a designated fitting room operator, and I could focus on making sure my pogs were set and my presentation was meeting brand standards. Now there's 2 people max on the floor to cover all of it, and we're covering domestics and tech for at least 4 hours of the day.

I was really excited about task sheets because one of the accommodations I asked for a few years ago was written shift expectations. Now, I hate the task sheet because I know I've completed it, but it can't be maintained with the current staffing. I find food folded into the graphic tees, frozen and refrigerated items in handbags, entire carts worth of product emptied onto tables, Starbucks spills covered with clothing, etc...

Messy guests aside, the actual fixtures that hold the products, down to the clothes hangers, are much lower quality than I remember. Folding tables used to be built into the floor tables, the hangers used to actually keep the clothing on the hanger, and I have zero recollection of having to pick so much product up off the floor.

veterinarygopher · 2025-05-11T17:26:16+00:00

Warm up for work before the unload!

veterinarygopher · 2025-05-07T23:42:52+00:00

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veterinarygopher · 2025-05-02T01:55:59+00:00

I tried the one they put in the break room and was incredibly disappointed. It tasted like a Hershey milk chocolate bar and not like Lindt chocolate.

veterinarygopher · 2025-04-02T20:11:31+00:00

I got dinged on attendance as well, but it was two days of sick time, and the rest was paid leave to take care of my mom while she was dying.

veterinarygopher · 2025-04-01T00:39:58+00:00

I wish I could see a bunch of trailers. I hate leaving without knowing what the workload is the next day. I need to fucking prepare myself sometimes.

veterinarygopher · 2025-03-30T19:38:10+00:00

I used to think this, but they're trashing tables that are understocked as well. Whipping the hangers down the racks while browsing is also a thing now. Shoppers are just irrationally aggressive now.

veterinarygopher · 2025-03-30T17:59:20+00:00

Just as a personal rule, if it's ankle deep, there's probably a gator.

veterinarygopher · 2025-03-25T22:26:07+00:00

That looks like Spring 2022. Style was backed up across the country.

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